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Antonina Levashenko, Senior Researcher, Head of International Best Practices Analysis Department at the Gaidar Institute, joined the Council of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RUIE) on non-financial reporting, indices and rankings of sustainable development.

Irina Tolmacheva, Head of the Legal Department of the Gaidar Institute, Deputy Director of the Endowment Fund “Fund for the Development of Socio-Economic Sciences and Education”, took part in the strategic session of the Russian Ministry of Science and Higher Education “Endowments in Science and Higher Education”, which was held on May 19, 2025 at the Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University. The event was attended by more than three hundred participants, including heads of universities and scientific organizations, representatives of authorities and alumni associations, to discuss and develop tools to support the creation and development of endowment funds in the scientific and educational sector.

On May 22, Gaidar Institute Library and the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) hosted a discussion of Shoshana Zuboff’s book “Supervisory Capitalism or Democracy? Confronting Institutional Orders and the Politics of Knowledge in Our Information Civilization”, where Antonina Levashenko, Head of the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department, and Andrei Zubarev, Senior Researcher at the Gaidar Institute’s Digital Finance Research Department, participated.

We bring to your attention No. 9(182), 2025 of the analytical review “Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of Socio-Economic Development”, which tracks current trends and dynamics in the Russian economy.

On May 20, a meeting of the Scientific Council took place at the Gaidar Institute, where the thesis of Tatiana Ivakhnenko, Researcher, Mathematical Modelling of Economic Processes Department, submitted for the PhD degree in economics, was discussed.

On May 19, 2025, Ekaterina Papchenkova, Director of Center for Evidence-Based Expertise at the Gaidar Institute, took part in the 13^th St. Petersburg International Legal Forum (SPILF) in St. Petersburg. The largest platform united representatives of legal, business and law enforcement communities to discuss the law for the benefit of citizens, business, improvement of law enforcement practice, promotion of legislative initiatives with the aim of developing legal culture and regulation of social and economic sphere in modern environment.

Researchers of the Gaidar Institute’s International Best Practices Analysis Department prepared the next issue of the Monitoring of Legal Regulation of the Digital Economy №4(16), April 2025 where they talked about new trends in the development of regulation of the digital economy in the world.

On May 6, the 2nd issue of Economic Policy was available for readers. Economic Policy is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal established by the Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy and the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration in 2006.

Antonina Levashenko, Head of the International Best Practices Analysis Department of the Gaidar Institute’s Center for Political Economy and Institutional Development, shared her opinion about Shoshana Zuboff’s book "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontiers of Power" published by Gaidar Institute Press.

We bring to your attention No. 8(181), 2025 of the analytical review “Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of Socio-Economic Development”, which tracks current trends and dynamics in the Russian economy.

We bring to your attention No. 7(180), 2025 of the analytical review “Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of Socio-Economic Development”, which tracks current trends and dynamics in the Russian economy.

We bring to your attention No. 6(179), 2025 of the analytical review “Monitoring of Russia’s Economic Outlook. Trends and Challenges of Socio-Economic Development”, which tracks current trends and dynamics in the Russian economy.

On April 16, a meeting of the Academic Council was held at the Gaidar Institute to discuss the thesis of Dmitry Kuznetsov, researcher at the International Trade Department, submitted for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Kirill Chernovol, Researcher, International Best Practice Analysis Department at the Gaidar Institute, shared his opinion on the book by Raghuram Govind Rajan "The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Leave the Community Behind."

We offer you the 46th edition of review "Russia’s economy. Trends and prospects", which has been issued by the Gaidar Institute since 1991.

On April 12, Оlga Magomedova, an expert at the Best International Practice Analysis Department, Gaidar Institute, took part in the 21st "Blischenkov Readings" International Congress. In her report "The Impact of Climate Change on Interstate Relations," the expert presented the results of an analysis of the ambiguous provisions of the 2023 climate and security agreement between Australia and Tuvalu.